A671 crash in Rossendale on 18 May 2016 at 16:25 involving a Chevrolet Spark
A Chevrolet Spark hit a pedestrian on the A671 in Rossendale at 16:25 on Wednesday 18 May 2016. A 7-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 May 2016
- Wednesday, 16:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Chevrolet Spark
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.70308, longitude -2.19962, in the OL13 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bacup. It is one of the crashes that make up the Britannia & Lee Mill, Rossendale, OL13 0AX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Rossendale
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201604EF16067
- Council area
- Rossendale
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 671
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Zebra crossing
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 17%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 83%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 11 September 1996.
Serious
Iveco-Ford crash on an unclassified road in Rossendale, 11 September 1996
20 m awayRef 199604P015096
Slight
Car crash on the A671 in Rossendale, 30 August 1999
36 m awayRef 199904F055399
Serious
Volvo crash on the A671 in Rossendale, 31 July 1999
36 m awayRef 199904F047399
Slight
Car crash on the A671 in Rossendale, 18 April 1988
36 m awayRef 1988040EG0999
Slight
Kawasaki ZX600 crash on the A671 in Rossendale, 12 August 1990
36 m awayRef 1990040EG2352
Slight
Bus crash on the A671 in Rossendale, 16 June 1980
40 m awayRef 1980040HG0638
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Chevrolet Spark
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 7, hit by vehicle 1 (Chevrolet Spark)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 201604EF16067 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Rossendale road accident statistics for 2016.